Azit the Paratrooper Dog

89 Minutes, 1972
Genre:
Feature

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Directed by: Boaz Davidson
Production:Yitzhak Shani, Yosef Diamant
Photographer: Yaackov Kallach
Language: Hebrew
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Director Boaz Davidson’s adventure film, based on former IDF Chief of Staff Mordechai (‘Motta’) Gur’s best-selling children’s book, follows the story of Dr. Charuvi and his daughter, Tammy, who move to a new neighbourhood with their dog, Azit. Next door lives Lieutenant Uri, a military paratrooper. The Charuvis and Uri soon strike up a friendship. Meanwhile, the local butcher and his wife are none too happy with the new canine arrival but when they are mugged, Azit confronts the mugger and brings back their wallet. It is then that everyone learns that Azit has extraordinary abilities to help, solve, and diffuse the most complex situations.
Uri and Tammy fall in love, and he decides to take Azit back to the army with him and train her for combat. Azit completes her training course with flying colours, and the army starts deploying her in various special operations. She is parachuted into the desert to rescue a pair of hikers captured by terrorists – and is able to save them just moments before they are fatally bitten by toxic desert crabs. Uri and Azit try to foil a terror group’s activities, led by arch-terrorist Abu Hassan, and when Uri is taken hostage – Azit helps in his rescue mission.
Azit the Paratrooper Dog was a huge box office hit, with over 320,000 people having watched it in cinemas. Although there were those who were vocally put off by the grotesque portrayal of the Arab characters in the film – including Azit’s creator and author, Motta Gur.
The film’s gorgeous soundtrack features original music by Arale Kaminsky & The Platina Band.

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